Meanings (ES + gloss)
moral
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
a moral obligation
moral judgments; a moral poem
moral
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They le…
a moral action
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
moraleja
The ethical significance or practical lesson.
The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
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